Posted on 01/16/2009 2:07:04 PM PST by Baladas
NEW YORK (AP) Americans believe Barack Obama is on track to succeed and are optimistic he can help revive the struggling economy, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.
Public expectations for his performance in office far exceed those for any president in a generation.
On the eve of his inauguration Tuesday, the poll found that 65 percent of those surveyed believe Obama will be an "above average" president or better, including 28 percent who think he will be "outstanding."
According to previous pre-inauguration polls, just 47 percent believed George W. Bush would be an "above average" or "outstanding" president when he entered his first term, 56 percent thought Bill Clinton would be "above average" or better and 38 percent thought George H.W. Bush would be. The earlier pre-inaugural numbers all came from the Gallup Poll, except for Clinton's, which came from the ABC News/Washington Post poll.
With the U.S. facing the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the poll found broad optimism that Obama could help turn things around. Seventy-one percent of those polled said the economy will likely improve during the first year of his presidency; 65 percent said unemployment will go down; 72 percent said the stock market would be on the rise; and 63 percent said their personal economic situation would improve.
"He cannot not succeed. He has to succeed because the world really depends on him right now," said Richard Kern, 51, who works in a home remodeling business in Bernalillo, N.M.
Even Ronald Reagan, who won a landslide victory over President Jimmy Carter in 1980 during another period of economic uncertainty, was viewed more skeptically than Obama before his inauguration. At the time, 51 percent said Reagan would be a good or great president, according to the Gallup Poll.
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High hopes from the crack pipe.
think he can turn that economy around
Everyone knows an Keynesian can't, turn an economy around!
But he has... HIGH Hopes
he's got high hopes
he's got that high Obama sky in the high hopes.
So anytime you're feeling low,
stead of letting in go,
just remember that lib..
Ops there goes another billion
Ops there goes another billion
Ops there goes another billion, trillion dollar debt.
KER PLOP
Politics is perception. The normal business cycle may well move from recession to recovery during Obama’s term in office.
He will take credit for the recovery when in effect he had next to nothing to do with it. The mainstream media will assist in creating the perception that his policies were key.
Our gubermint skools at work.
As such, Obama will panic as he already is with huge government spending. 14% - 20% of GDP deficits will result in inflation.
It has been over 25 years since we have had to live with inflation, believe me, people will not like it.
Obama like FDR will just blame all the problems on his predecessor. So conservatives need to get on the record that the Obama policies are just continuation of the Bush polices. That way in 2012, we can run on real conservative free market principles instead of trying to two-step Bushonomics and trash Obamanomics.
You would have to be high to have any hope in this bull pucky.
Stoopid reigns. Be prepared for abject misery. The messiah is a major fraud who will sell misery as sacrifice.
Uh? So this poll to me is complete propaganda.
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